What are the future trends for computers ?
Discussion
In theory, by the end of the year, we could have our 64-bit PC's running 64 bit Linnux and eventually, sometime, running 64bit windows Longhorn...all running near silently due to fanless CPU cooling solutions. We have our PC's fitted with fast 1GHz+ DDR2 memmory, with no northbridges (?), no AGP port, but instead PCI-Express ports which would not only connect to your video card, but soon to a set of SATA 2.0 hard drives which could come in 10,000+ rpm flavour. This coupled with onboard RAID should speed up data access along with Gigabit Ethernet, also onboard. One Terrabyte external hard drive could be availble if needed. If need be (sad geek, that I might be), normal large TFT just won't do, so I would go the 3D route and go for a 3D TFT, where the image seems to jump out at you and where you don't need to wear special glasses. If you want to go with glasses to get the 3D effect, you can now get '3D' wall/screen projectors...but why stop there when we could soon have lasers projecting the 3D images direct onto our retina's, with fantastic horizontal Field Of Views. You could also might soon be able to add a floating point accellerator card into your PCI-Express slot to bump up your FLOP and MIP scores to junior super-computer league...if you thought your AMD/Pentium chip was inadequate, in that area.
In the longer term future, I reckon we will have further progress with OLED's and LEP's and whilst talking about plastics, I see that we now have further developments of eletrical conductive plastics. We will also end up with 'inkjetting' circuit designs onto flexible plastic films and have cheaper plastic chips.
Talking of chips/CPU's, they will move to a 3D design, rather than flat, with vertical interconnects. We might also see chips with the ability to reprogram itself. The chip would not only have on-off gates, but also and/nand/or/nor etc gates too. Thus allowing complex tasks to be performed in one pass/cycle... somewhat simular, I guess, to the ability of quantum dot computers (which I won't go into). Although HDTV's are and will be more popular, TV's will end up looking like a huge pannel of flat glass hanging up on the wall, or used as a partion wall. CD's and DVD's will eventually become old hat with solid state plastic cards (ie one big flat plastic chip with instant loading and access) becomming normal. PVP's (personal video players) are will be a huge hit, IMHO. I can see future PVP's with perhaps MEM's memmory or even perhaps holographic memmory too.
In the end though, I can't help but think that although it's great having all this fantastic super-duper geeky technology, we're still stuffed ! We are still going to have Windows bluescreening and crashing. We are still going to be moaning about nothing good being on the box...although we will be refering to our 8ft glass pannel displays or OLED steriovision glasses. We will still have some pirate scroate selling dodgy filmed cinema releases on plastic cards rather than DVD's, down the local market.
Any thoughts on this ?
Is this a bit too 'nerdy' for you or do you know of a future computer trend that you know of ?
Regards John S
In the longer term future, I reckon we will have further progress with OLED's and LEP's and whilst talking about plastics, I see that we now have further developments of eletrical conductive plastics. We will also end up with 'inkjetting' circuit designs onto flexible plastic films and have cheaper plastic chips.
Talking of chips/CPU's, they will move to a 3D design, rather than flat, with vertical interconnects. We might also see chips with the ability to reprogram itself. The chip would not only have on-off gates, but also and/nand/or/nor etc gates too. Thus allowing complex tasks to be performed in one pass/cycle... somewhat simular, I guess, to the ability of quantum dot computers (which I won't go into). Although HDTV's are and will be more popular, TV's will end up looking like a huge pannel of flat glass hanging up on the wall, or used as a partion wall. CD's and DVD's will eventually become old hat with solid state plastic cards (ie one big flat plastic chip with instant loading and access) becomming normal. PVP's (personal video players) are will be a huge hit, IMHO. I can see future PVP's with perhaps MEM's memmory or even perhaps holographic memmory too.
In the end though, I can't help but think that although it's great having all this fantastic super-duper geeky technology, we're still stuffed ! We are still going to have Windows bluescreening and crashing. We are still going to be moaning about nothing good being on the box...although we will be refering to our 8ft glass pannel displays or OLED steriovision glasses. We will still have some pirate scroate selling dodgy filmed cinema releases on plastic cards rather than DVD's, down the local market.
Any thoughts on this ?
Is this a bit too 'nerdy' for you or do you know of a future computer trend that you know of ?
Regards John S
John_S4x4 said:You forgot to mention the outgrowths of TCPA and DRM, where Steve Ballmer can delete your home directory, whenever he wants. BOFH stylee.
Any thoughts on this ?
Is this a bit too 'nerdy' for you or do you know of a future computer trend that you know of ?
Regards John S
GregE240 said:
I dunno. I saw a BSOD on an NT4 box the other day. First I've seen in bloody ages. My XP boxes have been good as gold.
Stability seems sorted now. Security next?
The XP box I bought a few weeks ago has crashed hundreds of times since. The customary "reinstall everything" seems to have sorted it. Who do I charge for 4 days work to sort this garbage out?
Bodo said:
Any thoughts on this ?
Is this a bit too 'nerdy' for you or do you know of a future computer trend that you know of ?
Regards John S
You forgot to mention the outgrowths of TCPA and DRM, where Steve Ballmer can delete your home directory, whenever he wants. BOFH stylee.
There's no need. His company's scabby software can manage that all by itself.
Plotloss said:
Terrabyte disks are about 4 years away I reckon.
Which will be handy...
Nope. Available now:
www.lacie.com/news/news.htm?id=10066
Alex said:
Terrabyte disks are about 4 years away I reckon.
Which will be handy...
Nope. Available now:
www.lacie.com/news/news.htm?id=10066
Cool!
Having just forked out for a SATA RAID5 of 1.2TB and watched as it failed after 5 days, then sobbed as it refused to build from the installed "hot spare", this could be a winner!
zumbruk said:
The XP box I bought a few weeks ago has crashed hundreds of times since. The customary "reinstall everything" seems to have sorted it. Who do I charge for 4 days work to sort this garbage out?
I do sympathise.
The other major bugbear at the moment is the sheer number of post SP1 hotfixes one needs to install. I sorted my father in laws laptop out the other night (Sasser). Bless him, to save space he uninstalled all the hotfixes I'd installed, so that was 21Mb on dialup.
Not good.
Plotloss said:
Terrabyte disks are about 4 years away I reckon.
Which will be handy...
Well there was a lot of talk at a conference I was just at about these appearing towards the end of the year/beginning of the next.
I'll believe it when I see it to be honest.
>> Edited by eight on Friday 7th May 11:31
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